USC ~ ISI

University Of Southern California ~ Information Sciences Institute

Led the effort to add IGMP/PIM and Multicast Routing Information Base (MRIB) to the Open Source GateD suite of routing protocols. Mentored graduate students and others that would eventually become prominent members of the computer networking community.

  • Software was bought by by 3Com, NextHop Technologies, Internet Engineering Group (iENG) and later Green Hills Software and HP to be included in product offerings.

  • Conceived of and lead the development of an Open Source test tool called PKT that resulted the National Science Foundation (NSF) project Network Interoperability Test Bed award number ANI­9901934

  • Contributed to the Routing Arbiter Toolset used by major network providers to coordinate inter provider routing policy and BGP configuration generator.

  • Majority of work in C/C++, Perl, TCL. Linux and BSD kernels.

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